Portraying traffic light compliance as under threat due to widespread disregard and lack of enforcement
The framing emphasizes norm erosion around amber and red lights, using hyperbolic metaphors (e.g., 'social contract we’re all sleepwalking into') and references to the Road Safety Authority to dramatize non-compliance.
“It’s becoming the norm for multiple cars to carry on through the amber and red lights, as if it’s a social contract we’re all sleepwalking into, pedestrians and safety be damned.”
